W. Jared Berg

About Jared

Jared Berg works with privately and publicly held companies, as well as their private equity investors, in mergers, acquisitions and general corporate matters. He advises businesses throughout the various stages of their development, including formation and establishment of corporate structures and governance, initial and follow-on equity investments, growth-oriented mergers and acquisitions, as well as ultimate dispositions through sale or an IPO. Jared's experience focuses in the energy sector, but his business background and legal knowledge is applicable to a range of industries.

Experience

Recent Notable Matters

Apache Corporation — creation of $3.5 billion midstream company with Kayne Anderson Acquisition Corp., forming the only publicly traded, pure-play Permian Basin midstream company that is a C-corporation

DCP Midstream Partners, LP — 50/50 joint venture between Phillips 66 and Spectra Energy, in a transaction combining all of the assets and debt of Midstream with DCP Midstream Partners, LP. The combination creates the largest gathering and processing master limited partnership in the United States with a pro-forma enterprise value of approximately $11 billion.

Pilot Chemical Corp. — purchase of ATRP Solutions, Inc., a venture capital-backed specialty polymer technology company, which was in business for ten years after being spun out of Carnegie Mellon University

Apache Corporation — formation of SCM Alpine, LLC, which will own and operate a greenfield NGL y-grade pipeline, including transportation service agreements, tariffs and related regulatory matters

Pembina Pipeline Corporation — acquisition of Veresen Inc. in a combined cash and stock transaction valued at approximately CAD $9.7 billion. The transaction creates one of the largest energy infrastructure companies in Canada, with a pro-forma enterprise value of approximately CAD $33 billion.

Conflicts Committee of Tallgrass Energy Partners, LP — advised the Conflicts Committee of the Board of Directors of the general partner of Tallgrass Energy Partners, LP in its acquisition of an additional 24.99% membership interest in Rockies Express Pipeline LLC from a subsidiary of Tallgrass Development, LP for cash consideration of $400 million